In a systematic survey of the manifestations and meanings of Black Power in America. John T. McCartney analyzes the ideology of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s and places it in the context of both African-American and Western political thought. He demonstrates, through an …
In a systematic survey of the manifestations and meanings of Black Power in America. John T. McCartney analyzes the ideology of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s and places it in the context of both African-American and Western political thought. He demonstrates, through an …
Margaret Mehl examines the way in which government interests, indigenous traditions of scholarship, impulses from the West and the rise of the modern nation-state combined to shape the modern academic discipline of history in Japan. The focus of her study is on the Historiograph…
Provides a comprehensive overview of the development of political thought from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Covers the rise of the welfare state and subsequent reactions to it, the fascist and communist critiques of and attempted alternatives to liber…
In The End of Utopia, Jacoby takes a sobering look at the future of politics. He points to the abandonment of utopian ideals that once sustained dissent and movements of social change.
In The End of Utopia, Jacoby takes a sobering look at the future of politics. He points to the abandonment of utopian ideals that once sustained dissent and movements of social change.
Ideologies play a crucial role in the way we understand and shape the political world. But no one has satisfactorily explained the nature of ideologies themselves. In his important new book, Michael Freeden offers a ground-breaking approach to the subject. Drawing on the politic…
From the "Red Menace" to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. Richard Madsen's frank and innovative examination of the moral history of U.S.-China relations targets the forces that have shaped this surprisingly stron…